The second in a series of works by Joe Shafer which use simple off-the-shelf software to create beautiful digital poetries. 'sleeping thru [w]riting rain' is a kinetic poem performed as live writing in Microsoft Powerpoint.

Joseph Shafer is from New Hampshire, USA, and is a Ph.D. student in the English and Comparative Literary Studies Department at the University of Warwick, where he studies New American Poetry, D.H. Lawrence, Psychoanalysis, and the field of Education. Joe has long been working with poetry, and is interested in developing poetic forms that extend its critical content.